Roger Mason Jr. did not go quietly into the night after being fired as commissioner of the Big3 basketball league for alleged corruption. The former NBA player and high-ranking official with that league’s union claimed Monday that a “hostile and racist” environment existed at the three-on-three basketball league, which debuted …

VATICAN CITY — Whenever Pope Francis visits prisons, during his whirlwind trips to the world’s peripheries or at a nearby jailhouse in Rome, he always tells inmates that he, too, could have ended up behind bars: “Why you and not me?” he asks. That humble empathy and the ease with …

WASHINGTON – House Intelligence Committee Republicans say they have found no evidence that President Donald Trump and his affiliates colluded with Russian officials to sway the 2016 election or that the Kremlin sought to help him, a conclusion at odds with Democrats’ takeaways from the congressional panel’s year-long probe and …

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — America’s gambling industry predicts $10 billion will be bet on the March Madness college basketball tournament — nearly all of it illegally or off-the-books. That’s one of the reasons the American Gaming Association favors the full legalization and regulation of sports betting in the United States. …

TAMPA — The New York Yankees‘ dugout at George M. Steinbrenner Field is slanted on a rise from back to front, and Aaron Judge has learned by now not to rise quickly to his feet from the bench at the back. Just after 3 p.m. Monday, he put on his …

All five passengers on a helicopter have been killed after it crashed into the East River off Manhattan. There were six people on the Eurocopter AS350, which was registered to Liberty Helicopters and was being used for a private charter photo shoot. Moments before the crash, the pilot radioed for …

At least 50 people have been killed after a plane crashed and burst into flames in Nepal, an army spokesman has said. The US-Bangla Airlines aircraft was attempting to land at Kathmandu Airport when it veered off the runway and crashed into a nearby football pitch. Army spokesman Gokul Bhandaree …

The European Union has vowed to stand up to protectionist “bullies” as Donald Trump prepares to impose trade tariffs on many metal products. Talks in Brussels over the weekend with US trade representative Robert Lighthizer failed to resolve the row – leaving the prospect of an all-out trade war firmly …

Police are investigating a football club owner who allegedly marched on to the pitch armed with a weapon. The Greek Super League match between PAOK and AEK Athens was halted when Ivan Savvidis, one of Greece’s richest men, walked on to the field while wearing a holster that appeared to …

French fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy has died aged 91, his partner has confirmed. The man who created the iconic “Little Black Dress” for Audrey Hepburn’s opening scenes in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was also responsible for styling Hollywood screen sirens Elizabeth Taylor and actress Grace Kelly, who became Princess of …